1240 Cocoanut Road (formerly known as the Dickenson House) is a historic house located at 1240 Cocoanut Road in

Boca Raton Boca Raton ( ; es, Boca Ratón, link=no, ) is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It was first incorporated on August 2, 1924, as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925. The population was 97,422 in the ...

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. It is locally significant for its association with Maurice Fatio, a master architect with an office in Palm Beach.

Description and history

The two-story

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

style house was designed by architect

Maurice Fatio Maurice Fatio (1897–1943) was a Swiss-born American architect. Biography Maurice Fatio was born in Geneva, Switzerland on March 18, 1897. He graduated from the Polytechnical School at the University of Zurich and studied under Swiss architect ...

. The house was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

on August 17, 2001.

References

External links

Palm Beach County listings
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National Register of Historic Places
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida National Register of Historic Places in Palm Beach County, Florida Houses in Palm Beach County, Florida Colonial Revival architecture in Florida Houses completed in 1937 {{PalmBeachCountyFL-NRHP-stub